Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEGood men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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